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Congrats to the team at Skype on the finalization of their sale from eBay last week and their new independence!

We’ve long been fans of Skype and have been a partner of theirs since back in 2005. As I’ve noted in previous blog posts, notably “Skype-ifying your voice applications“, we automatically provide an inbound Skype number to call any XML application you create on our Evolution developer portal or any JavaScript, PHP, python, ruby or groovy app you create on our Tropo.com cloud telephony service. (And here are instructions about how to find that number for Evolution and for Tropo.)

I wish the folks at Skype all the best as they transition back to being an independent company and look forward to continuing to work with them in the time ahead. Congrats, Skypers!

P.S. If you’d like to try this connectivity out yourself, just head on over to Evolution or Tropo.com and sign up for a free developer account.

As Skype CEO Josh Silverman announced on Skype’s blog today, it’s Skype’s 5th birthday today. It was back on August 29, 2003 that the first public beta of Skype was announced.

Happy Birthday, Skype!

Long-time users of Skype or Voxeo may recall that we originally partnered with Skype back in 2005 as part of their Voice Services Program, which was Skype’s original attempt at building a developer program. Skype’s program has morphed today into something a bit different through their Developer Zone and Extras program, but we’ve still retained connections with Skype.

In fact, I wrote about how to “Skype-ify” your voice applications back in March and any application you develop through our hosted Evolution developer portal automagically gets inbound Skype connectivity. Even for our free developer accounts!

We’re also huge fans of Skype internally and so we congratulate them on their fifth birthday and look forward to seeing what they do next.

P.S. You may also be interested in some thoughts I posted on my external blog around my view on how Skype has disrupted telephony over the past five years.

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